Ike

I realize it has been over a month since I posted and my goal was one a week. Stupid goal going into a new school year. Nonetheless, I must follow some sort of routine or practice a little discipline if I'm ever going to get anywhere with this "thing". Even if it's crap...

Delaware just survived Ike- with his hurricane force winds, something we don't see very often in Ohio. We faired well, though our neighbors did not. They had a tree land on their front porch while it was in contract to be sold. Crazy. There are thousands without power, which brought on the question at Jubilee team tonight, "What is your favorite thing to do when the power goes out?" Reading and sleeping topped the list. It's amazing how quickly we have lost our creativity. We were lucky to not loose power, but we did loose our cable and I thought I would go nuts without watching the news for 12 hours. Sad.

I mentioned school has started. When my friends ask me about my job I always proclaim that I have the "best job ever!" It's true, but it is also very demanding. Or at least I make it seem that way. Sometimes I act like I'm saving lives! I have a tendency to be a tad dramatic. The first month has left me quite overwhelmed and exhausted. Today it caught up with me. I just got to a point where the walls of my office and my "to do list" were closing in. It was hot (literally) and crowded, and I could not think past the next minute. Total tunnel vision. God, in His sovereignty, puts people in close proximity to me that can sense when I am slipping into that tunnel and pull me out. Jessica is one of those people. She calmly spoke reason and truth to me, and helped me to realize it was time to breathe. So I did just that. Walked into the upper chapel with a couple quality prayer books (one was Celtic- of course) and thirty minutes later gained a whole new perspective on my place in the universe. Told you that I could be dramatic.